Participants were observed, and brain responses to food and non-food aromas were measured using blood
oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) response via fMRI scans.
Not exact matches
Researchers at the Lifelong Brain and Cognition Lab at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois have utilized the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facilities available in Beckman's Biomedical Imaging Center to measure the moment - to - moment variability in brain activity, more specifically in the blood
oxygenation level -
dependent (BOLD) signal.
BOLD denotes blood -
oxygenation -
level —
dependent.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess each patient's ability to generate willful, neuroanatomically specific, blood -
oxygenation -
level —
dependent responses during two established mental - imagery tasks.
Of the 54 patients, 5 with traumatic brain injuries were able to modulate their brain activity by generating voluntary, reliable, and repeatable blood -
oxygenation -
level —
dependent responses in predefined neuroanatomical regions when prompted to perform imagery tasks.
Functional neuroimaging is most commonly performed using the blood -
oxygenation -
level -
dependent (BOLD) approach, which is sensitive to changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume
Blood
oxygenation level -
dependent (BOLD) total and extravascular signal changes and ΔR2 * in human visual cortex at 1.5, 3.0 and 7.0 T.
Recent studies that used the conventional blood
oxygenation level —
dependent fMRI have shown selective overactivity in the nucleus accumbens and related brain areas in obese compared with lean individuals when shown imagines of highly palatable food (6 — 11) and in subjects who scored high on a measure of food addiction (39).